STEP UP – Walkability for Women in Milan
Friday, February 16 · 4:00 – 7:30pm (CET) STEP UP – Walkability for Women in Milan Register in advance for this event. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing ...
Elevating Scientific Research with Human-Guided AI Tools: In Conversation with Dr. Igor Osipov
Igor Osipov, Ph.D., is VP Academic & Institutions at scite.ai. He leads scite institutional engagements globally in academic markets and consolidates the work of its channel partners and resellers networks worldwide. ...
Spatial Analysis of Citizens’ Travel Data: The Pollicino Project
The research investigated citizens’ travel data in Bologna using the GPS data collected through the Pollicino project. The proposed analysis uncovered soft modes as predominant and concentrated in central zones. ...
Milano Digital Week – STEP UP: Leveraging Data to Promote Women’s Walkability in Milan
Friday, October 06 · 1:00 – 2:00pm (CET) Milano Digital Week – STEP UP: Leveraging Data to Promote Women’s Walkability in Milan Register in advance for this webinar. After registering, ...
Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives on Pedestrian Thermal Comfort and Walkability
Pedestrian thermal comfort is a quantitative and qualitative measure of how comfortable the average pedestrian is when walking, sitting, or standing in an outdoors environment. Factors that influence outdoor thermal ...
Open Data for Urban Mobility Planning and Climate Shelters: In Conversation with Maurizio Napolitano
Maurizio Napolitano is a technologist at the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento and is currently the Head of the Digital Commons Lab (DCL). In this regard, his primary focus lies ...
TomTom Data Applications for the Assessment of Tactical Urbanism Interventions: The Case of Bologna
This work aimed at evaluating how a temporary school square, implemented in March 2022 in the city of Bologna under the principles of the tactical urbanism approach, impacted on vehicular ...
NYC Urban Air Quality Assessment: Urban Forest Analysis
This research is the first part of a study focusing on New York City’s urban forest infrastructure. In particular, this study examines the city’s street trees and parkland inventory as ...
Monitoring Pedestrian and Vehicular Flows to Optimize Urban Mobility: In Conversation with Alex Buzzetti
Alex Buzzetti is Co-founder and General Manager of Blimp S.r.l., an Enterprise focused on analyzing pedestrian and vehicular mobility in urban environments using proprietary technologies. In 2012, he obtained a Master’s ...
Video Analytics for Understanding Pedestrian Mobility Patterns in Public Spaces: The Case of Milan
Thanks to the recent developments in ICT tools for collecting traffic data in the urban environment, there is an ever-growing availability of videos capturing the nerve centers of cities (e.g., ...
A Participatory Approach to Urban Planning: In Conversation with Leonardo Tedeschi
Leonardo Tedeschi – Innovation in Urban Space Transformation Area Coordinator, Fondazione Innovazione Urbana Leonardo is an architect specializing in social enterprise management. He has experience in urban regeneration projects and ...
Milano Arch Week – Anatomy of Public Space: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
June 8th I 6:30 – 8pm (CET) Milano Arch Week – Park Hub Register in advance for this panel discussion. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the information ...
Anatomy of Public Space: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
The research project “Anatomy of Public Space: A Multidisciplinary Perspective” is a collaboration between Park Plus (the research unit of Park Associati), LAND Research Lab® (the research and innovation think ...
Measuring the Fairness of Transit Accessibility: The Case of Affordable Housing in New York City
Affordable housing is an integral aspect that determines the level of equity, for it to function sustainably, it is important to ensure that these units are placed in high-opportunity neighborhoods, ...
R&D Goals in Pedestrian Modeling and Simulation: In Conversation with Tobias Kretz
Dr. Tobias Kretz studied physics and graduated in particle theory in Karlsruhe, Germany. He obtained a PhD at the Duisburg-Essen University following his thesis “Pedestrian Traffic – Simulation and Experiments”. Since ...
Milano Digital Week – Exploring the Potentials of Tech Apps to Enhance Women’s Mobility
November 14th | 3:00 – 5:00pm (CET), Milano Digital Week – Online Exploring the Potentials of Tech Apps to Enhance Women’s Mobility Register in advance for this webinar. After registering, ...
Urban Landscapes in the Green Decade: In Conversation with Andrea Balestrini
Andrea Balestrini is a landscape planner with experience in nature-based solutions, public space design, and landscape governance within international R&I projects and consultancies. He studied at Politecnico di Milano and ...
Video Analytics for the Assessment of Street Experiments: The Case of Bologna
In March 2022, Fondazione Innovazione Urbana and the Municipality of Bologna built a new public space for children in Via Procaccini (Bologna) near a middle school (see Figure 1), using ...
Deep Learning Video Analytics to Assess VGA Measures in Public Spaces
Since the introduction of the Social Logic of Space (Hillier and Hanson, 1984) and the further developments of Space Syntax theories during the following decades (Hillier et al., 1996; Hillier, ...
Spatial Data for Low Carbon Cities: In Conversation with Iacopo Testi
Iacopo Testi is a research affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Senseable City Laboratory) where he conducts research at the intersection of urban sustainability, data science and artificial intelligence. ...
Shifting Paradigm: the impact of Covid-19 on transport planning
This book is a structured collection of the most insightful investigations developed by Transform Transport since the Covid-19 outbreak. The unprecedented disruption caused by the pandemic has given rise to ...
How to Put AI at the Service of People in Cities, and Not Otherwise: In Conversation with Prof. Flavio S Correa da Silva
Prof. Flavio S Correa da Silva is a researcher in Artificial Intelligence, with over 30 years of experience in theoretical advancements of AI, as well as the development of AI ...
Analysing ‘Twitter Conversation’ of London Tube Stations: The Case of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Covid-19 pandemic has deeply affected urban mobility: the social-distancing strategies adopted to cope with the virus transmission pushed the majority of city users into avoiding public transport services in favour ...
Nature-based Solutions to Mitigate Vehicular Traffic Pollution Beyond SUMPs
The research was aimed at defining an innovative nature-based approach to effectively tackle vehicle emissions by considering the role of urban green areas, relying on the capacity of trees to ...
How Covid-19 is Affecting Pedestrian Modeling and Simulation: The Case of Venice
The relevance of computer-based pedestrian crowd simulations has become crucial in transport planning considering the unprecedented effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on urban mobility. However, there is still a lack ...